Former Ubisoft managers were taken into custody as part of an investigation into harassment at the company (updated)

The police detained several former Ubisoft managers, according to the French trade union Solidaires Informatique. They were interrogated in the case of harassment.

News October 4, 2023

Media: Amazon conducted the second round of cuts in Twitch in a year

Journalist Zach Bussey (Zach Bussey) in his profile on X (Twitter) reported that Amazon fired some of the Twitch employees.

News October 4, 2023

Age ratings for in-game content will appear in Fortnite

Epic Games continues to develop the Fortnite ecosystem. The company announced that since the game has content for different ages, then everyone should be assigned an appropriate age rating.

News October 4, 2023

Former BioWare employees have sued the company over low termination Payments

Seven BioWare veterans have appealed to a Canadian court. They accused the company of “unreasonably mistreatment” during the dismissal.

News October 4, 2023

Astrum Entertainment has changed its CEO

Astrum Entertainment has announced a management reshuffle. She appointed Alexey Izotov, who previously headed the publishing direction at MY.GAMES, as the new CEO.

News October 3, 2023

The authors of the Replaced platformer received $5 million in investments

Sad Cat Studios, a studio with Belarusian roots, has raised $5 million from GEM Capital. She is going to spend part of this amount to finalize the retrofuturistic platformer Replaced.

Analytics October 3, 2023

Over the past three years, 41 thousand games have been released on Steam, of which 50% have earned $ 500 or less

The analytical service Gamalytic shared infographics on the total number of games released on Steam and their approximate revenue. Most of the titles do not earn even $ 1000, but the number of successful projects in the total mass continues to grow.

News October 3, 2023

Puny Human is closing after 16 years of operation. She helped create The Callisto Protocol and Wasteland 3

The Puny Human outsourcing studio is preparing to close. She had serious financial problems after an unnamed gaming company stopped cooperating.

News October 3, 2023

Media: Naughty Dog cuts freelance staff

Naughty Dog has decided to part with some of the employees, Kotaku reports, citing sources. The company will terminate contracts with at least 25 freelance workers.

News October 3, 2023

“Russ vs Lizards” entered the top 10 of the Russian Steam chart

The slasher “Russ vs Lizards”, based on a popular meme, is selling great. The game took the sixth place in the top of the highest-grossing products on Steam in Russia as a result of the last week.

Conferences October 3, 2023

WN Connect will be held in Poznan this Friday, October 6

The next chamber game dev event from WN Media Group is expected this week. This time it will take place in the west of Poland, in the city of Poznan. Among his guests are The Farm 51, Ice Code Games, Anshar Studios, Owlcat Games, My.Games Venture Capital, Ravenage and many others.

News October 3, 2023

The audience of Everspace 2 exceeded 1.5 million people

ROCKFISH Games has shared updated statistics on Everspace 2. She announced that the space shooter was launched by more than 1,111,111 Game Pass subscribers, and its sales on all platforms exceeded 400 thousand copies.

News October 3, 2023

Monster Hunter Now has become Niantic’s third most profitable game

The revenue of the AR-game Monster Hunter Now with IAP exceeded $ 21 million, follows from the data of the AppMagic service. This made the title the third highest-grossing mobile game in the Niantic portfolio.

News October 3, 2023

The creator of Hatoful Boyfriend said that Epic Games has never paid her royalties for the game

Hatoful Boyfriend, the artist who invented the dating simulator with pigeons, Hato Moa (Hato Moa) claims that Epic Games has not paid her royalties from game sales for more than two years.

News October 2, 2023

Media: the authors of the Worms series have started large-scale layoffs

Team17 is undergoing restructuring, according to Eurogamer sources. As part of it, the company is going to lay off a significant part of its employees, among whom will be CEO Michael Pattison (Michael Pattison).

News October 2, 2023

EA Sports FC 24 is the second best-selling release in British retail in 2023

EA Sports FC 24 football simulator has shown one of the best starts in the UK retail in 2023. According to GfK, the game lost in physical sales for the first week only to The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom.

News October 2, 2023

Sergey Galenkin left Epic Games after eight years of work (updated)

Sergey Galenkin, director of publishing strategy at Epic Games, probably came under a wave of cuts in the company. Galenkin’s Linkedin account states that he worked at Epic Games until September 2023 inclusive.

News October 2, 2023

In January-September 2023, Russians most often bought discs with Cyberpunk 2077, God of War: Ragnarök and Hogwarts Legacy

Group of companies “M.Video-Eldorado” reported which console games were in the greatest demand in Russian retail in January-September 2023.

News October 2, 2023

Kommersant: Russian associations have prepared proposals on measures to support the export of games

The Organization for the Development of the Video Game Industry (RVI), the Association of Professionals in the Operating and Game Development Industry (A PRIORI) and a number of other associations appealed to the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation. They sent the agency proposals on how the authorities can help with the promotion of the Russian games abroad.

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Revenue of Grand Hotel Mania overcame the milestone of $ 100 million

Former Ubisoft managers were taken into custody as part of an investigation into harassment at the company (updated)

Media: Amazon conducted the second round of cuts in Twitch in a year

Age ratings for in-game content will appear in Fortnite

Former BioWare employees have sued the company over low termination Payments

Astrum Entertainment has changed its CEO

The authors of the Replaced platformer received $5 million in investments

Over the past three years, 41 thousand games have been released on Steam, of which 50% have earned $ 500 or less

Puny Human is closing after 16 years of operation. She helped create The Callisto Protocol and Wasteland 3

Media: Naughty Dog cuts freelance staff

“Russ vs Lizards” entered the top 10 of the Russian Steam chart

WN Connect will be held in Poznan this Friday, October 6

The audience of Everspace 2 exceeded 1.5 million people

Monster Hunter Now has become Niantic’s third most profitable game

The creator of Hatoful Boyfriend said that Epic Games has never paid her royalties for the game

Media: the authors of the Worms series have started large-scale layoffs

EA Sports FC 24 is the second best-selling release in British retail in 2023

Sergey Galenkin left Epic Games after eight years of work (updated)

In January-September 2023, Russians most often bought discs with Cyberpunk 2077, God of War: Ragnarök and Hogwarts Legacy

Kommersant: Russian associations have prepared proposals on measures to support the export of games